Sentences with phrase «than spiritual power»

Not exact matches

The institutional church is so often like Satan... longing to be worshipped and obeyed; teaching that obedience to one scripture is more important than balancing them all; luring us to abuse our power to make a difficult path chosen by God into a simple solution of no new spiritual growth (Matt 4).

In such a time, appeals to the spiritual greatness of the Russian nation may be an essential witness to the Gospel rather than a capitulation to the powers that be.

While our schools will need to be a lot better than they were, in terms of spiritual and intellectual power, thirty years ago, we will also need a theological formation much better than the nebulous waffle which has passed for formation in catechetics this last ten years.

Many pastors who try to control the thinking and behavior of others with the concept of «spiritual fatherhood» are more concerned with their own position of power and prominence than they are with the spiritual wellbeing of other people.

A sight of the awesome greatness of God may overpower our strength and be more than we can endure; but if the moral beauty of God be hid, the enmity of the heart will remain in its full strength, no love can be enkindled, [our will] will not be effectual... but will remain inflexible; whereas the first glimpse of the moral and spiritual glory of God shining into the heart produces all these affects, as it were with omnipotent power, which nothing can withstand.

Bishops hold the rank of sovereign princes, and the temporal and spiritual power of the first bishop of Christendom renders him somehow the arbiter of kings («arbiter of kings» means that the pope was higher than the Emperor, and thus the actual temporal ruler of the whole world) and the fourth person of the Divinity («person of Divinity» means that the pope really presumes to be on a level with God).

Being spiritual does mean believing in a higher power than yourself and others.

Another part of why many people are spiritual but not religious is that although they believe in a power greater than themselves, they are actually comfortable not knowing exactly what that power is.

Most «spiritual, but not religious» people I know (and I was one for a while myself) do believe in some sort of higher, constructive, organizing, power than themselves.

Those in the spiritual - but - not - religious camp are peddling the notion that by being independent - by choosing an «individual relationship» to some concept of «higher power», energy, oneness or something - or - other - they are in a deeper, more profound relationship than one that is coerced via a large institution like a church.

However, I am more spiritual than religions, as Spirituality is a relationship with a higher power, whereas Religion is a man made construct to tell others how to worship a specific version of God

Well, perhaps some say they are spiritual but not religious because it is somewhat better received by churchies than if we say that their god and church and everything they believe is one giant man - made power - grab delusional fantasy story that causes incredible suffering around the world.

The See of Peter fell into the hands of men who were more interested in using it as a power in Italian politics, in aggrandizing the members of their families, or in promoting art and their own personal pleasures than they were in making it effective in furthering the spiritual and moral life of Europe.

Christian faith is so much faith and so little sight that its adherents are always seeking for some demonstration which will prove to themselves and others that it is true, though the demonstration is bound to be somewhat beside the point — like most miracles — proving not truth but utility, and exhibiting a power which may be that of God, but may also be that of faith itself, or of spiritual forces somewhat less than divine.

The programs taught me about (1) admitting I was beat, (2) coming to believe in something greater than myself (eventually a higher power)(many evolutions and concepts of HP, all of these at one time or another: nature, the 12 steps, creator, Love, spiritual principles)(Step 3) applying my low self worth and gigantic Ego to these spiritual principles (4) write down my liabilities and assets (5) share them with another and my higher power (6 & 7) ask for the liabilites to be removed and be patient with the process (8) Make a list of all that were harmed by me (9) make amends to such folks except whn to do so would injure them or myself (10) take a daily inventory of my day, checking for snafus, mean temperment, arrogance etc (11) meditation and prayer to communicate to my higher power and quiet reflection to listen for the Truth (12) after having a spiritual awakening as a result of working these steps, help others if they wish for help because now I am in the position to assist.

To be consistent, the question should be asked whether any spiritual being other than myself (whose actions I can introspectively know) truly exhibits active powers.

------ Col. 2:8 - 9 «Don't let anyone capture you with empty philosophies and hig - sounding nonsense that come from human thinking and from the spiritual powers of this world, rather than from Christ.»

«The body,» he continues, «would thus be, not the cause of our thinking, but merely a condition restrictive thereof, and, although essential to our sensuous and animal consciousness, it may be regarded as an impeder of our pure spiritual life.8 And in a recent book of great suggestiveness and power, less well - known as yet than it deserves, — I mean» Riddles of the Sphinx,» by Mr. F. C. S. Schiller of Oxford, late of Cornell University, — the transmission - theory is defended at some length.9

Paul said in Colossians 2 v 8 «don't let anyone capture you with empty philosophies and high sounding nonsense that come from human thinking and from spiritual powers of this world rather than from Christ.

To sit or kneel day - dreaming for thirty or sixty minutes is less likely to lead to spiritual power than a few minutes of vital fellowship.

In an appendix to the book Alcoholics Anonymous that was added 16 years after the original printing, Bill Wilson wrote about members who had had spiritual experiences that «with few exception our members find that they have tapped an unsuspected inner resource which they presently identify with their own conception of a power greater than themselves.»

«Nothing was ever in any man that is not in you; no man ever had more spiritual or mental power than you can attain, or did greater things than...

still packs a potent punch, but its power comes from a more emotional place rather than spiritual.

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